LocomotiveCMS is a simple but powerful CMS based on liquid templates and mongodb database. At my company (NoCoffee), we use it for our clients when they request a simple website.
If we have to give a couple of features to describe our application, there will be:
- managing as many websites as you want with one application instance
- nice looking UI (see http://www.locomotivecms.com for some screenshots)
- flexible content types
- content localization out of the box
- playing smoothly with Heroku, Bushido and MongoHQ
- inline editing (wip)
- API
Strategy / Development status
We already developed a fully functional prototype in Rails 2.3.2 with both active record / mongomapper and it worked quite well. We are even using it for some client websites.Now, our goal is to port our prototype to Rails 3 and migrate from mongomapper to mongoid. Besides, we put a lot of efforts to make it as robust as we can by writing better specs than we wrote for the prototype at first.
Gems
Here is a short list of main gems / technologies used in the application.- Ruby 2.0
- Rails 3.2.16 (Rails 4.0 planned for the beginning of 2014)
- Mongoid 3.1.3 (with MongoDB 2.x)
- Liquid
- Devise
- Carrierwave
- Haml
- Formtastic
- Cells
- Coffeescript / Backbone / SASS
Installation
See the installation documentation on the official websiteUpgrading
We work on the procedure to upgrade from a previous version of the engine (below the 2.0.0)Community
- Get help or discuss locomotive CMS at the LocomotiveCMS Google group
- Follow us on twitter
Contributing to LocomotiveCMS
LocomotiveCMS is an open source project, we encourage contributions. If you have found a bug and want to contribute a fix, or have a new feature you would like to add, follow the steps below to get your patch into the project:- Install ruby and mongoDB
- Clone the project
git clone git@github.com:locomotivecms/engine.git
- Setup a virtual host entry for
test.example.com
to point to localhost - Install PhantomJS (Required for the cucumber suite See: https://github.com/jonleighton/poltergeist)
- Run the tests
rake
- Write your failing tests
- Make the tests pass
- Create a GitHub pull request
from https://github.com/locomotivecms/engine